"Berio. Last time I heard of him he had died in prison." Michael looked up at Devon's statement. "Even from beyond the grave he can get at us." Turning to Bonnie Michael asked, "So, what now?" "Now we hope Dr. Marcus can revive him." With that she got up and left the two men to their thoughts. "Penny for your thoughts, Michael." Giving himself a mental shake Michael turned to Devon. "I'm not optimistic about this, Devon. Kitt's life is in the hands of someone who has Alzheimer's…" Michael trailed off, Devon merely nodded, understanding.
"No, we can't do that! He wouldn't be the same!" Bonnie was terrified and furious. The elder scientist had just proposed what he was going to do to "fix" Kitt. Bonnie stared at the old out-dated mainframe that sat in the dusty lab. In it (or so the doctor insisted) was a full copy of the program k.i.t.t. The doctor had proposed to delete the current program –essentially kill Kitt- and reload the original copy, which wouldn't have the complex changes that Berio had somehow managed to leave behind. It would be a fully working AI program. The only problem was that it was a full copy of the ORIGINAL program, with none of the thousands of updates and minute software changes that the current one had. Also it had none of the data, none of the memories, none of the essence that was Kitt. There had to be a different way.
"No, we can't do that! It wouldn't be the same!" The assistant was being insubordinate. He ought to fire her. Why was she insisting that the AI would not have the memories? Of course it wouldn't have the memories! It had never been used! No wait. Yes it had, there would be data in the databanks that the current Kitt-program needed. His back-up copy was years out-dated, he realized that. Sighing Dr. Marcus shook his head as a clear moment once again broke through. Ok, so the current program is tied to the memory mods that are in the CPU, soooo… what if they built a new CPU, then tried to bring the current program online just enough to download all the memory data into the new CPU. Then shouldn't the new "reborn" program be a copy of the current one? It was the only way.
It had lots of if's, maybe's and but's in it but when Dr. Marcus had told her his theory she had agreed with a heavy heart. Truth be told Bonnie knew it really didn't make any difference. This was the only chance they had. Michael didn't understand the procedure so she decided to simplify it. "Basically, we're going to make a 'new' Kitt, then we somehow have to get the current program up and running enough for the two programs to interface and try to back-up all of Kitt's memories into the new program. All of the updates I've added to the original programming will of course be added to the new one by myself, that way the only thing that we'll -or rather Kitt will- transfer is the data or Kitt's memories of you will." Michael pondered on that. "So if the memory transfer doesn't work, I'll basically have the Kitt that I had when I first start with Flag?" Bonnie stopped her exit short. "You won't even have that. We'll have the AI that we first activated, an AI without personality, without a lot of things. We won't have Kitt, we'll just have another AI that will sound like him." Michael watched Bonnie leave. He didn't want another AI, he wanted Kitt.